Myosin head movements are synchronous with the elementary force-generating process in muscle

Muscle Structure and Theories of Contraction

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Tension responses to sudden length change in stimulated frog muscle fibres near slack length

Lincoln E. Ford, A. F. Huxley, Robert Simmons · The Journal of Physiology · 1977 · 854 citations · Full text